And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
Beth-lehem-judah - so called in contradistinction to a town of the same name in Zebulun (Joshua 19:15).
Of the family (i:e., tribe) of Judah. Men of the tribe of Levi might connect themselves, as Aaron did (Exodus 6:23), by marriage with another tribe; and this young Levite (according to Jerome, 'Quaest. Hebraicae,' on 1 Chronicles 23:15-16, his name was Shebuel) belonged to the tribe of Judah by his mother's side, which accounts for his being in Beth-lehem, not one of the Levitical cities.